Strategy Development

Why read this strategy book? Understand business from a strategic perspective. Senior executives routinely share and discuss strategy with marketing directors, operations chiefs, and other direct reports. But how much do those managers really understand about strategic thinking, planning, implementation, and measurement? A recent investigation into this question concluded most managers don't understand enough about strategy to be useful. Asked to take a basic strategy exam—a test that any CEO or senior manager should easily ace—a representative sample of U.S. managers from C-level ...

_____________ Includes 10 Free Bonuses To many people, strategic planning is something meant only for big businesses, but it is equally applicable to small and medium businesses. Strategic planning is matching the strengths of your business to available opportunities. This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of developing a results driven strategic plan. The book is packed with guides, worksheets and checklists that make it easy to apply all that knowledge to your business. Here's what’s in the book: * The Need for a Strategic Plan * How to Create a Mission ...

Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the most significant revision of US defense strategy in a generation. Here he lays out how America's defense must change to address China's growing power and ambition. Based firmly in the realist tradition but deeply engaged in current policy, this book offers a clear framework for what America's goals in confronting China must be, how its military strategy must change, and how it must prioritize these goals over its lesser interests.

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy”.

Marriage coaches and NFL chaplains George and Tondra Gregory give couples practical tools for long-term success in this holistic, biblically based guide for marriage.

Digital Marketing Strategy is your essential guide to building powerful online campaigns, mastering modern tools, and connecting with your audience across every major digital channel. This comprehensive and practical book is designed for entrepreneurs, freelancers, small business owners, and marketing professionals who want to succeed in today’s fast-paced online environment. Whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide walks you through everything from SEO and social media to content marketing, paid ads, email automation, and beyond.

Johnson provides an eminently practical framework for understanding how a business model actually works. Identifying its four fundamental building blocks, he lays out a structured and repeatable process for reinventing an existing business model or creating a new one and then incubating and scaling it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. In a new chapter on digital transformation, he shows how serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully.

For more than 40 years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside.

In Cracked It!, seasoned strategy professors and consultants Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps and Olivier Sibony present a rigorous and practical four-step approach to overcome these pitfalls. Building on tried-and-tested (but rarely revealed) methods of top strategy consultants, research in cognitive psychology, and the latest advances in design thinking, they provide a step-by-step process and toolkit that will help listeners tackle any challenging business problem. Using compelling stories and detailed case examples, the authors guide listeners through each step in the process.

In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.

The Strategy of No Strategy is your guide to profound clarity, lasting impact, and deep ease, not through exhausting effort, but through strategic stillness. Rooted in the timeless wisdom of Laozi’s Tao Te Ching and the living rhythm of modern Taoism, this transformative book by bestselling author ShaoLan reveals how mindfulness, precise timing, invisible preparation, and quiet awareness help you lead with authentic power and live with calm, unshakable confidence.

Are You Ready to Stop Defending Learning—And Start Amplifying Its Value? For too long, Learning & Development (L&D) has struggled to be recognized as a strategic driver of business success. Despite launching powerful programs, L&D teams often find themselves justifying their worth, fighting for resources, and defending their budgets instead of being seen as key contributors to growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. But what if the problem isn’t that learning lacks value—but that we haven’t learned how to amplify its value? In Hidden Value, Dr. Keith Keating—author of The ...

This new expanded edition contains a protocol to develop and hone critical decision-making instincts and make them habitual. This new chapter is read by the author. The instant #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 USA Today bestseller answers the world’s most complex question: How do...

In his leadership manifesto, David Grutman shares his journey to becoming owner of some of the top venues in dining and nightlife, showcasing his years of experience in the hospitality industry and teaching readers that relationships are at the core of any successful business. David Grutman...

Shortcut Your Way to Better Trading Strategies What if you could take years of algorithmic trading research and condense it into practical, proven “cheat codes” you can apply right now? In Algo Trading Cheat Codes, award-winning trader and author Kevin J. Davey—Verified Trading Championship winner and creator of the acclaimed Strategy Factory® process—pulls back the curtain on the very techniques he uses to build robust, profitable trading systems. This isn’t theory. Inside you’ll find thousands of hours of research boiled down into simple, actionable takeaways you can ...

Whether you're a business leader, entrepreneur, martial artist, student, or simply seeking practical wisdom, this Complete Strategy Collection delivers powerful insights into leadership, competition, and self-mastery—timeless tools for victory in any field.

Spanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, The 33 Strategies of War is a comprehensive guide to the subtle social games of everyday life, informed by the most ingenious and effective military principles in war. Structured in Greene's trademark style, The 33 Strategies of War is the I Ching of conflict, the contemporary companion to Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Explore the universe of potential buyers. Learn how to assemble a team of expert advisors to prepare your business for sale. Walk step by step through a typical investment-banker-led midmarket sale process from start to finish. Adam Coffey has spent the last 20 years as CEO of three private-equity-backed national service companies. Through his experience executing a buy-and-build strategy, he has bought and sold more than 100 companies ranging in size from $1 million to $1 billion. Selling your business is an art.

John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future...

WARNING : DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE LAZY Every blueprint comes with a detailed breakdown of each component or part and is accompanied with explanations and examples. These are the same blueprints that I and many other marketers use to create a successful business. This is what separates an okay Internet marketer with a successful one. Most marketers don't use a funnel, and this is them basically leaving out thousands of potential sales. And there are those who have used a funnel but were not able to see results. There's a few reasons why some people fail with funnels. They structured...